III 322. Chersonesos. Epitaph of a woman, II century B.C.Е.

Monument

Type

Stele. 

Material

Marble. 

Dimensions (cm)

H. 6.5, W. 10.0.

Additional description

Broken off on the left. Remains of three lines of text on the front. 

Place of Origin

Chersonesos. 

Find place

Sevastopol (Chersonesos). 

Find context

Southeast sector of Chersonesos, necropolis "between the Quarantine Bay and the military road to Sevastopol." 

Find circumstances

Found in 1896, excavations of K.K. Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich. 

Institution and inventory

Unknown. 

Autopsy

Non vidi. Current whereabouts of the monument are unknown. 

Epigraphic field

Position

On the front. 

Lettering

Nu with short right vertical, omicron little smaller than other letters, four-bar sigma with parallel top and bottom bars, oval omega with bottom horizontal strokes raised above the writing line; serifs and flaring of the ends of letterstrokes. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.5

Text

Category

Epitaph. 

Date

II century B.C.Е. 

Dating criteria

Palaeography. 

Editions

IOSPE 17, № 19; IOSPE IV 139; IOSPE I2 522 . 

Edition

[---] Ἡρώιδα
[---]σ̣ικλεῖος
[γ]υνά.

Diplomatic

[---]ΗΡΩΙΔΑ
[---].ΙΚΛΕΙΟΣ
[.]ΥΝΑ

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      	<lb n="1"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/> Ἡρώιδα 
      	 <lb n="2"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><seg part="F"><unclear>σ</unclear>ικλεῖος</seg>
      	 <lb n="3"/><supplied reason="lost">γ</supplied>υνά.
   </ab>
   </div>
 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

[---] Heroida, wife of [---]sikleios.

 

Images

 

(cc) © 2017 Igor Makarov (edition), Irene Polinskaya (translation)
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